Alumni
Sylvia Atsalis
Program Specialist and Advisor in the Life Sciences Student Center for Science Engagement, Northeastern Illinois University
Research interests: primate behavior
Karen Baab
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Stony Brook University
Research interests: hominin taxonomy and phylogeny, cranial morphology, geometric morphometrics
Richard Bergl
Curator of Conservation and Research North Carolina Zoo
Research interests: ecology and conservation, molecular genetics, remote sensing
Mary Blair
Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Biodiversity and Conservation American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: landscape genetics and ecology, biogeography, behavioral ecology, molecular phylogenetics, and conservation biology
Jessica Brinkworth
Postdoctoral Researcher Research Center CHU Sainte-Justine University of Montreal
Research interests: Evolution of the primate immune system, innate immunity, primate pathogens, severe bacterial infections, toll-like receptors, human immune function variation, socioecology of immunity
Douglas Broadfield
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology Florida Atlantic University
Research interests: evolution of the human brain, comparative neuroanatomy, chimpanzee cognition
Michelle Brown
Anthropologisches Institut und Museum, Universitat Zurich Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Research interests: Primate behavioral ecology, between-group competition, evolution of within-group social relationships
Andrew Burrell
Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: population genetics, biogeography, papionin evolution
Paul Buzzard
Field Biologist China Exploration and Research Society
Research interests: animal behavior and ecology, conservation biology
Joe Califf
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Behavior; socioendocrinology; cognitive evolution; human evolution
Michael Campbell
Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Genetics School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Research interests: human population genetics, adaptation, complex traits/disease
Terence Capellini
Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Developmental Biology Stanford University
Research interests: Evolutionary developmental biology; physical anthropology including primate evolutionary morphology with a focus on limb and axial skeletal biology, growth, and development
Siobhán Cooke
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Northeastern Illinois University
Research interests: Physical anthropology; paleontology; primate evolution; platyrrhine evolution; dental morphology; Caribbean biogeography.
Elena Cunningham
Adjunct Associate Professor Academic Coordinator New York University College of Dentistry
Research interests: Primate cognition, Ranging and foraging behaviors, Primate ecology
Kate Detwiler
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Florida Atlantic University
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology, primate genetics
Wendy Dirks
Lecturer School of Dental Sciences Newcastle University
Research interests: Dental hard tissue histology, life history evolution, vertebrate palaeontology.
Rachel Dvoskin
Researcher The Genetics and Public Policy Center Johns Hopkins University
Research interests: primate genetics
Peter Fashing
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology California State University, Fullerton
Research interests: evolutionary anthropology, behavioral ecology, conservation biology, GIS, tropical forest and afroalpine grassland ecology
Connie Fellmann
Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anatomy NEOUCOM
Research interests: Physical anthropology, limb ontogeny, heterochrony, growth and development, evolution of genus Homo (especially origin, dispersal and variation of Homo erectus), functional morphology/biomechanics, evolution and trends in hominin body size and shape
Sarah Freidline
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Human Evolution Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Research interests: geometric morphometrics, hominin evolution
Stephen Frost
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology University of Oregon
Research interests: geometric morphometrics, primate paleontology
Haviva Goldman
Associate Professor Neurobiology and Anatomy Drexel University College of Medicine
Research interests: Human Variability and Skeletal Adaptation, Bone Quality and Skeletal Fragility, Hierarchical Structure-Property Relationships in Bone
Katy Gonder
Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences University at Albany / SUNY
Research interests: Comparative human and non-human primate evolutionary and population genetics, Primate biogeography, behavior and ecology, African biodiversity and conservation
Lauren Halenar
Postdoctoral Research Associate CUNY/NYCEP at the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Platyrrhine paleontology and biogeography, evolutionary history of ateline primates, howler monkey cranial morphology, geometric morphometrics
Rebecca Ham (Dudzik)
Freelance Science & Health Writer Phoenix, Arizona
Research interests: science policy,environmental science writing, science writing for children, museum exhibit design
Katerina Harvati
Director, Paleoanthropology University of Tubingen
Research interests: hominin evolution, Neanderthals, cranial morphology, geometric morphometrics
Jason Hodgson
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Anthropological genetics; molecular genetics; population genetics; human population history; the peopling of Island Melanesia; bioinformatic approaches to the study of primate and human evolution.
Russell Hogg
Lecturer Department of Pathology & Anatomical Sciences University of Missouri
Research interests: The evolution of ontogeny and life history as reflected in hard tissue microstructure; mammalian and early primate evolution.
Rebecca Jabbour
Assistant Professor Department of Biology Saint Mary's College of California
Research interests: human evolution, African ape evolution and diversity, skeletal biology and variation
John Krigbaum
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology University of Florida
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, Bioarchaeology, Human Osteology, Paleopathology, Paleodiet Reconstruction, Southeast Asia
Susan Lappan
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Appalachian State University
Research interests: Primate behavioral ecology and conservation, gibbons, Indonesia
Jenna Lawrence
Instructor Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Columbia University
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology
Joshua Linder
Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology James Madison University
Research interests: Primate ecology and conservation, Hunting in the tropics and the bushmeat trade, Protected area management, Human use and perception of wildlife, Conservation biology
Andres Link
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Primate socio-ecology; atelins (spider monkeys); tropical forest ecology; conservation of Neotropical rainforests.
Jenny Listman
Associate Research Scientist Psychiatric Genetics Department of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine
Research interests: human population genetics, Southeast Asia, human behavioral and substance abuse genetics, statistical genetics, biases in genetic study design, population genetic substructure
Samuel Marquez
Assistant Professor Department of Cell Biology SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Research interests: comparative anatomy, human and primate evolution
Reiko Matsuda Goodwin
Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Sociology & Anthropology Fordham University Post-doctoral researcher BioCaster Project Principles of Informatics Research Division National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
Research interests: Primate distribution & biomass, Frugivory, Feeding Behavior, Old World monkeys, Seasonally dry forest ecology, infectious disease surveillance
Luke Matthews
Director, Data Analytics Activate Networks, Inc. Newton, MA
Research interests: Cultural primatology; social learning; phylogeny and behavior; primate ethology.
Colleen McCann
Curator Department of Mammals Wildlife Conservation Society
Research interests: Primate socioendocrinology; Primate behavior, reproduction and evolutionary history; Conservation biology
Shannon McFarlin
Assistant Research Professor Department of Anthropology George Washington University
Research interests: skeletal biology, tissue histology, dental development, life history
Kieran McNulty
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology University of Minnesota
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, Human and primate evolution, Geometric morphometrics, Cranial evolution and ontogeny, East Africa
Rachel Messinger (Nuger)
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology Moorpark College
Research interests: skeletal biology
Michael Montague
Post-Doctoral Research Associate The Genome Institute Washington University School of Medicine
Research interests: Implications of variation in color vision among female New World primates, primate behavior, evolution of sensory systems, neurogenomics.
Alba Lucia Morales-Jiménez
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Neotropical primate conservation (Ateles hybridus and Saguinus leucopus); taxonomy and systematics (using genetics and morphology), especially of spider monkeys, tamarins and owl monkeys.
Badrul Munir
School of Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Research interests: molecular systematics
Varsha Pilbrow
Lecturer Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology University of Melbourne (Australia)
Research interests: human and primate evolution, dental variation, skeletal biology
Ryan Raaum
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Lehman College and The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Population genetics, Bioinformatics, Human evolution, Statistical genetics
Thomas Rein
Postdoctoral Fellow University of Tuebingen (Germany)
Research interests: Early hominin evolution and paleontology; primate positional behavior; comparative morphology; skeletal biology.
Christopher Robinson
Professor Biology and Medical Laboratory Technology Department Bronx Community College City University of New York
Research interests: Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution, 3D cranial morphometrics of fossil hominins and extant hominoids, giraffid evolution
Sasimar Sangchantr
Public Health Officer International Organization for Migration, Indonesia
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology, public health
Eric Sargis
Professor of Anthropology Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Professor of Forestry & Environmental Studies Yale University Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Curator of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy) Peabody Museum of Natural History
Research interests: functional morphology, mammalian phylogenetics
Jessica Satkoski Trask
Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Anthropology University of California, Davis
Research interests:
Lisa Schlotterhausen
Dean of Institutional Effectiveness North Hennepin Community College
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology
Christopher Schmitt
Postdoctoral Fellow Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior University of California, Los Angeles
Research interests: Socioecology of juvenile development in atelines, life history and socioecology of New World primates, juvenile social development and social learning, interface between morphology, behavior, and life history, parental care and mating systems, population genetics, affiliative social traditions (esp. in Cebus).
Amy Schreier
Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Evolutionary Anthropology Duke University
Research interests: Primate Behavior and Ecology; Evolution of Social Structure; Primate Cognitive Ecology; Baboon Socioecology and Evolutionary History; Evolution of Human Behavior;
Maja Sešelj
Postdoctoral Fellow Lifespan Health Research Center Department of Community Health Boonshoft School of Medicine Wright State University
Research interests: Comparative morphology and patterns of growth and development in middle and late Pleistocene hominins, Paleolithic archaeology.
Chet Sherwood
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology George Washington University
Research interests: neuroanatomy, brain evolution, allometry
Lindsey Smith
TWP Lecturing Fellow Duke University
Research interests: Gestural communication in African apes; primate behavior; language evolution.
Stephanie Spehar
Assistant Professor Religious Studies & Anthropology Department University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Research interests: primate socioecology, mating systems, group dynamics and social behavior, communication
Kirstin Sterner
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology University of Oregon
Research interests: primate comparative genomics, adaptive evolution, human brain evolution, infectious diseases in primate hosts, HIV/SIV and AIDS, evolutionary medicine, colobines
Denise Su
Curator of Paleobotany and Paleoecology Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Research interests: paleoecology, hominin evolution
Francys Subiaul
Assistant Professor Speech and Hearing Science Mind, Brain & Evolution Center George Washington University
Research interests: social cognition, learning, primate cognition
Wesley Sutton
Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Lehman College
Research interests: human population genetics
Sandra Suárez
Assistant Professor Department of Biology Ramapo College of New Jersey
Research interests: primate genetics, animal behavior, neotrpoical primates, ecology, field methods, conservation biology
Larissa Swedell
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology Queens College and The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: social behavior, behavioral ecology, reproductive strategies, evolution of social organization, human social evolution, conservation, baboons
Lissa Tallman
Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Sciences Grand Valley State University
Research interests: functional morphology, postcrania, evolution of bipedalism, locomotion
Paul Telfer
Country Director WCS-Congo Program
Research interests: Primate Biogeography and Conservation with special emphasis on West African primate evolutionary relationships
Nelson Ting
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Institute of Ecology and Evolution University of Oregon
Research interests: Molecular Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Conservation Biology, Phylogenetics, Population Genetics, Phylogeography
Anthony Tosi
Criminalist, Level III Forensic Biology Laboratory Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) New York City
Research interests: Molecular forensics, Systematics, Population genetics, Phylogeography of nonhuman primates
Monica Uddin
Assistant Research Scientist Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health University of Michigan School of Public Health
Research interests: Social context and human population health; genetic and epigenetic markers of mental illness; gene X social environment interactions.
James Warfield
Assistant Professor Institute for the Study of Child Development Robert Wood Johnson Medical School University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
Research interests: primate ecology, conservation biology
Johanna Warshaw
Dissection Lab Faculty Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Research interests: Primate phylogeny; primate life history; primate functional morphology and biomechanics; bone biology and histology.
Danielle Whittaker
Managing Director BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action Michigan State University
Research interests: Avian chemical communication, mate choice, multimodal communication
Derek Wildman
Associate Professor Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics Wayne State University School of Medicine
Research interests: The biology of pregnancy, Evolution of genes X environment interactions, Mammalian phylogenetics, Rates of nucleotide sequence evolution, The evolution of the brain, Primate evolutionary genetics
Kimberly Williams-Guillen
Research Associate School of Forest Resources University of Washington
Research interests: Ecology and conservation of terrestrial mammals
Steven Worthington
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Morphology and evolution of catarrhine primates, pattern and process of homoplasy within Mammalia, theory and method of phylogenetic inference.